Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — POLICE ASPHYXIATED. [ARTICLE]

POLICE ASPHYXIATED.

Two Found Dead in a Cottage at Central Park, New York. Captain Collins, of the New York Central Park police force, was summoned from his home Thursday morning by policeman James Caln, who, at 6:45 a. m., discovered three of his officers and a boatman named Furey, lying on the floor of the toilet room of a cottage adjoining tbe croquet grounds. The men had deserted their posts aqd entered the room through a window. While dozing a gust of mingled sewer and illuminating gas had burst through the traps and overcome them. Cain’s attention was attracted to the cottage by the sound of heavy snoring. Peeping through the window he saw four persons lying on the floor. With a mighty effort he forced the door and dragged tho four out into the fresh air. Of the quartet two were dead. A third died a few moments after being rescued, The other was alive, but apparently beyond help. Cain summoned aid from the station in the arsenal and the helpless victims of gas were conveyed to that point The dead were policemen David Lyons, James Haynes and Thomas Furey.